Tour de force

Ride & Seek’s Paris-to-Moscow bike tour

by CAMILLE CHIN  January 2015

Ride & Seek’s second Epic Adventure is scheduled for July 18 and it’s not your average bike tour. Following in the footsteps of Napoleon and his Grande Armée, it begins in Paris and ends in Moscow. The 45-day trip covers 3852 kilometres; you can do all or just one of its six, weeklong stages. The second stage is through Germany’s hills. Quaint Polish villages are featured in stage three, followed by the Great Lakes segment, the Baltic States and St. Petersburg (not conquered by Napoleon) and finally Moscow. The entire trip is €12995; from €2295 per stage. Accommodations, breakfasts and dinners are included as are guides, road support, luggage transfers and shuttle transport. Airfare is not. Bikes can be rented for €30 a day. rideandseek.com.

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